In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss domestic work, how the women who perform it are made invisible, and what should be done to secure their rights. 
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Readings & Resources
"Out of the Shadows"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/national-domestic-workers-alliance.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=80560529BCACC56EAF348EF466B3DF02&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL

"Não romantize as relações de trabalho: sua empregada não é quase da família" 
https://www.uol.com.br/universa/colunas/cris-guterres/2021/02/23/sua-empregada-nao-e-quase-da-familia.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_content=geral&utm_campaign=universa&fbclid=IwAR0jLj1MnbWLB0R7byLhhEeVedFM9Jh2lTDQkNb62xrpoqKBB3hc2eklsSc

A Feminism Where 'Lean In' Means Leaning On Others
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/
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57. Invisible - #ComradeMommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, I go into a new plan for the month. Here goes!
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60. Podmas - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, Podmas installment #3, I discuss healthcare, its financial strain on U.S.ians, and alternative healthcare realities abroad. 
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Readings & Resources

The U.S. Health Insurance System is Broken / I Can't Afford Health Insurance and I'm Not Alone
https://youtu.be/a75qe8VdFLQ

Medicare for All
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all
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62. Healthcare - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed. 

Suggested Readings/Resources

Ethiopian Student Movement:

Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014)
https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640

Randi Rønning Balsvik - Haile Sellassie’s Students: The Intellectual and Social Background to Revolution. 1952- 1977 (1984)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Haile_Sellassie_s_students.html?id=nZ8lAQAAIAAJ

Ethiopian Revolution and its diverse effects:

Gebru Tareke - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa (2009)
https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopian-Revolution-War-Horn-Africa/dp/0300204140

Donald L. Donham - Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (1999)
https://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Modern-Ethnographic-Ethiopian-Revolution/dp/0520213297

Amrit Wilson - The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution (1991)
https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Road-Women-Eritrean-Revolution/dp/0932415717/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841852&sr=1-6&keywords=amrit+wilson

On student organizing across Africa more generally:

Leo Zeilig, editor - Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Protest-Politics-Sub-Saharan-International/dp/1780760434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841914&sr=1-1&keywords=Revolt+and+Protest%3A+Student+Politics+and+Activism+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa

Oral history collection containing the reflections of former radical ESM students:

Zewde, Bahru Zewde, editor - Documenting the Ethiopian Student Movement: An Exercise in Oral History (2010)
https://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Ethiopian-Student-Movement-Exercise/dp/9994450336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841950&sr=1-1&keywords=Documenting+the+Ethiopian+Student+Movement%3A+An+Exercise+in+Oral+History.

Beautifully written memoir of Hiwot Teffera, a woman who was deeply involved in the ESM, recounting her early involvement in the movement and following up through her incarceration:

Hiwot Teffera - Tower in the Sky (2012)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Tower_in_the_Sky.html?id=9mzinQEACAAJ

Learn more about Beatrice’s research here: https://sydney.academia.edu/BeatriceWayne

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Episode 10-"Guerrillas Rise to Power"-Student Movements in 1960s Ethiopia w/Beatrice Wayne

In Episode 13 - “Peach Progressivism” – I speak with Anoa Changa (@thewaywithanoa) - activist, attorney, and news commentator -  about election 2016, the Southern political scene, her family’s black radical history, & much more. 

Related Reading/Resources:

Discussion between Benjamin Dixon, Anoa Changa, & Wendi Muse on the Left-“Alt-Right” Alliance, Benjamin Dixon Show, March 12, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pold5hl3XBQ

Marcus Ferrell for State Representative, Arizona:
http://www.ferrellfor24.com/

“Inequality in America: A National Town Hall” w/ Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton, Michael Moore, & guests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV8XfM9CZo

“Bernie Endorses Challenger to Antiabortion Candidate in IL”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/08/bernie-sanders-endorses-challenger-to-antiabortion-democrat-in-illinois/?utm_term=.67626789c7a6

“Why Is the DNC Embracing an Aggressively Anti-Choice Candidate?”
https://rewire.news/article/2017/04/20/why-is-dnc-embracing-aggressively-anti-choice-democrat/

“Two Angry Black Ladies & a Microphone,” Anoa’s Interview of Imani Gandy, February 7, 2018
http://thewaywithanoa.com/2018/02/07/anoa-imani-gandy-two-angry-black-ladies-and-a-microphone/ 

The Peach Perspective (Anoa’s Georgia Politics Blog):
http://peachperspective.com/

“BDS Vote Exposes Split between Democratic Leadership”
http://peachperspective.com/2018/03/01/bds-vote-exposes-split-democratic-leadership-evans/

Coverage of Dwight Bullard at the Progressive Army
http://progressivearmy.com/tag/dwight-bullard/

“Pro-Israel Billionaire Haim Saban Drops $100,000 against Donna Edwards in Maryland Senate Race”
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/pro-israel-billionaire-haim-saban-drops-100000-against-donna-edwards-in-maryland-senate-race/
*correction: it was indeed $100k! I made a mistake on the podcast.

Chuck Schumer’s Speech 2018 AIPAC Speech:
http://www.policyconference.org/article/transcripts/2018/schumer.asp

“Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/economy/trump-steel-industry-layoffs.html

“An Untold Chapter in Black History: an Excerpt of Safiya Bukhari’s The War Before: https://monthlyreview.org/2010/02/01/an-untold-chapter-in-black-history/

More on Safiya Bukhari: http://safiyabukhari.com/
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Episode 13- "Peach Progressivism" - a Discussion w/Anoa Changa - Left POCket Project Podcast

In Episode 21 of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard & I continue our #ReadingRevolution discussion of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed AND touch on some related current events.

You can read along with us by visiting patreon.com/leftpoc to download a free PDF of the entire book. You can also send us questions and comments for us to discuss on the next episode on patreon or via any of our social media accounts. 
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Instituto Paulo Freire
www.paulofreire.org/ (note: sometimes the site has an issue with pop-ups. Either put your pop-up blocker on beforehand and/or be prepared to close pop-up windows when visiting the site for the first time)
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Related Readings & Resources:

"Behind the Scenes in Venezuela"
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections

"Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ralph-northam-and-the-history-of-blackface

"A Terrible Failure to Protect School Girls in Liberia"
https://africasacountry.com/2018/10/a-terrible-failure-to-protect-school-girls-in-liberia

"Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders"
https://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/teach-for-america
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Pt2 - #ReadingRevolution w.Richard- Left POCket Project Podcast - Ep 21

In this episode, we discuss Albert Memmi's seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution. 

You can find the entire text for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

Additional Readings & Resources:

"Critics and Theorists: Albert Memmi"
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/19/memmi-albert/

"Albert Memmi's About-Face"
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0046.326

"Jews and Arabs"
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/21/archives/jews-and-arabs.html
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The Colonizer & The Colonized Pt1 - #ReadingRevolution- Left POCket Project Podcast Ep 24 (@LeftPOC)

In this episode, we continue with part 2 of our discussion of Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized for #ReadingRevolution.
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Readings & Resources
Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized
(full text)https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonizer-27087972

"Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html

"The Great Escape that Changed Africa's Future"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/great-escape-that-changed-africas-future?fbclid=IwAR36FqTJNJH345O_NXd9k6kZBcngq2W2fOdafwI0BZt0GWdIiSqh1SmFD8U
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25. The Colonizer & The Colonized Pt2 - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis. 
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Readings & Resources

Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse" 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/

Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" 
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296

Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650
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41. Pandemic & Its Discontents w/Elise Mitchell - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, I speak with journalist Malaika Jabali about her thoughts on Kamala Harris being the vice presidential pick for the Biden ticket and the impact this may have on the left and the black community, especially black women. 

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Readings/Resources

Work by Malaika Jabali

“The Color of Economic Anxiety”
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety

“Democrats ignore black, working-class midwesterners at their peril”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/03/democrats-ignore-black-working-class-midwesterners-at-their-peril

“After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/black-voters-us-election-kamala-harris-obama

“What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?”
https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/

“Bernie and Black Voters” (interview on The Dig podcast)
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/bernie-and-black-voters-with-malaika-jabali-and-wendi-muse/

Left Out (documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubd2cnslP8A

Twitter: @MalaikaJabali
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Additional readings

“Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html
 
“Kamala Harris meets with AIPAC leaders at her Senate office”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435812-kamala-harris-meets-with-aipac-leaders-at-her-senate-office
 
“Angela Davis on Kamala Harris”
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=773737800111695
 
“The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e
 
“Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwkab/jamal-trulove-wants-kamala-harris-to-talk-about-his-wrongful-conviction
 
“Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4n9d/black-lives-matter-isnt-going-to-just-shut-up-and-vote-for-kamala-harris
 
“Of course it’s Kamala!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iInStlR2boI 

GoFundMe Thread (add your own; priority given to health & housing needs): https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1293989196324012034
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46. The Trouble with Kamala - Interview w/Malaika Jabali - Left POCket Project Podcast

Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

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